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  title info:
    title: Beyond religious tolerance
    sub title: Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist encounters in an African town
  name:
    name part: Nolte, Insa.
  name:
    name part: Ogen, Olukoya.
  name:
    name part: Jones, Rebecca.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group identification. Based on an African case study, this book calls for new ways of thinking about diversity that go "beyond religious tolerance". Focusing on the predominantly Muslim Yoruba town of Ede, the authors challenge the assumption that religious difference automatically leads to conflict. In southwest Nigeria, Muslims, Christians and traditionalists have co-existed largely peacefully since the early twentieth century. In some contexts, Ede's citizens emphasize the importance and significance of religious difference, and the need for tolerance. But elsewhere they refer to religious boundaries in passing, or even celebrate and transcend religious divisions. Drawing on detailed ethnographic and historical research, survey work, oral histories and poetry by UK- and Nigeria- based researchers, the book examines how Ede's citizens experience religious difference in their everyday lives. It examines the town's royal history and relationship with the deity Sango, its old Islamic compounds and its Christian institutions, as well as marriage and family life across religious boundaries, to illustrate the multiplicity of religious practices in the life of the town and its citizens and to suggest an alternative approach to religious difference.
  note: edited by Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen and Rebecca Jones.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-307) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-nr---
  subject:
    topic: Religious tolerance
    geographic: Nigeria
  classification: BL99.5 .B49 2017
  classification: 323.44/2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Religion in transforming Africa ; 2
  identifier: 9781847011534
  identifier: 1847011535
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 160711
    record change date: 20180515094505.0
    record identifier: in00003859922
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng